I have been running both MoCA and powerline networking for a while now. MoCA is certainly the best but I don't always have coax port near where I want my TV, e.g. my basement. So powerline networking comes handy (and cheaper too). I have not experiencing any interference problem yet from treadmill or dimmers. Certainly not Microwave which is known to interfere with wifi. But YMMV and it also largely dependent on your house wiring. As long as you get AV200 mbps versions, they are very adequate for extenders. I have never had any good luck with wireless at all.

I have been running both MoCA and powerline networking for a while now. MoCA is certainly the best but I don't always have coax port near where I want my TV, e.g. my basement. So powerline networking comes handy (and cheaper too). I have not experiencing any interference problem yet from treadmill or dimmers. Certainly not Microwave which is known to interfere with wifi. But YMMV and it also largely dependent on your house wiring. As long as you get AV200 mbps versions, they are very adequate for extenders. I have never had any good luck with wireless at all.

That was old news. These adapter prices are already jacked up on eBay a few years back. I can buy a pair of Powerline adapters new for about $50 almost everywhere. But I can't get one MoCA adapter for less than $50 and unless you have FIOS, you need to have two MOCA adapters at minimum.

That was old news. These adapter prices are already jacked up on eBay a few years back. I can buy a pair of Powerline adapters new for about $50 almost everywhere. But I can't get one MoCA adapter for less than $50 and unless you have FIOS, you need to have two MOCA adapters at minimum.

I tried the Powerline adapters to extend my network and my home wiring wasn't good enough to get any kind of decent throughput.

In the end I bought 2 airport extremes usign 80211.n and bridged them on the 5ghz band and then connected my stuff through the wired connections. It's been good enough for 720p content.

I finally got my echo the other day and I've been pretty happy with it for 7wmc stuff. I love how quiet it is, I have a 360 slim and while it's quieter than the original 360 I still hear it during silent parts of shows/movies. Now I'm just waiting to get approved for the ceton forums so I can see what I've been missing out on.

If it requires a signature (not all fedex shipments do) and you're not home, they will leave a little sticky note telling you they missed you. there is a spot on this note where you can sign and they will leave it if you're not home on the next attempt.

IIRC, you can also fill out something online that waives the signature.

^^ It depends on the "type" of signature the sender requested. They have 3 options:

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Indirect Signature Required: FedEx obtains a signature from someone at the delivery address (a neighbor, building manager or someone at a neighboring address), or the recipient can leave a FedEx Door Tag authorizing release of the package without anyone present. This option is available only if you checked This is a residential address in the To section; it is not available for shipments to nonresidential addresses.

Direct Signature Required: FedEx obtains a signature from someone at the delivery address. If no one is at the address, we reattempt delivery.

Adult Signature Required: FedEx obtains a signature from someone at least 21 years old (and possessing the required government-issued photo ID) at the delivery address. If no eligible recipient is at the address, we reattempt delivery.

For something like the Echo, I would think Ceton would either go with no signature required or the indirect option. The worst case with the indirect signature option is that if you aren't home, you'll just have to wait an extra day to get your package (unless the first delivery attempt was on a Saturday, in which case you would need to wait till the following Tuesday as they don't deliver FedEx Home packages on Sunday or Monday). The other 2 options require that someone be home or you request that they hold the package at the local FedEx facility for you to go pickup in person.

I have heard that FedEx won't just leave packages in certain neighborhoods where they've had a lot of cases of stolen packages presumably because they end up being held responsible if the package is missing and missing packages obviously aren't good for business whether it's their fault or not.

My Echo is pretty smooth in WMC, is slower than WMC itself but is not annoyingly slow.

What video and audio codec do you have on the atv files? What container are they in? The splitting needs to be done on the host machine so if it works in WMC it should work on the Echo if the codecs are supported. They are activelly working on the the .h264 and AC3 material right now.

You should post these on the issue tracker on ceton's website. Each of these issues are reported in some way, shape or form in the beta tracker already.

I received my beta unit today and the UI is extremely choppy. Much slower than the Xbox 360. If this does not improve, I'll be staying with the Xbox 360.
In addition, even on the latest firmware the Echo is reporting 720p 4:3 to my television. I have to set the TV to use FULL mode instead of normal mode for 16:9 source.
Lastly, my H.264 Handbrake Apple TV3 (1080p) encodes do not play back on the Echo in Media Browser. Avengers will stutter severely while some like Prometheus crash the Echo.

What f/w number is it?
My Echo is pretty smooth in WMC, is slower than WMC itself but is not annoyingly slow.
What video and audio codec do you have on the atv files? What container are they in? The splitting needs to be done on the host machine so if it works in WMC it should work on the Echo if the codecs are supported. They are activelly working on the the .h264 and AC3 material right now.
You should post these on the issue tracker on ceton's website. Each of these issues are reported in some way, shape or form in the beta tracker already.
Remember this is a BETA product and not fully functional.

These items have been posted to the beta forum, but I'm seeking troubleshooting advice from this much more active thread.

The files are encoded using Handbrake Apple TV2 or Apple TV3 preset. The encode is H.264 and has both AC3 and stereo per the profile. I do not have any codec packs added to my HTPC. Live TV stability has been the most important thing, so I encoded to a format that worked out of the box. Incidentally, this also means I can use the same files in iTunes on OSX as well as on iOS devices.

Live TV is not smooth. There is clearly a lower frame rate than the Xbox 360.

I've tried playing with my NIC settings changing flow control, Offload settings, and 100mb vs gigabit. The Echo will not even start with the HTPC set to 100mb.

I'm running the Echo with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime 6CC. The HTPC has had no problems recording 6 shows and playing back 2 recordings to Xbox 360s simultaneously. My network should be up to par.

To repeat what someone else asked, I rebuilt my browser recently and forgot to save the bookmarks. Duh.

What's the Echo beta URL? I just got mine a short while ago.

A few early notes: I've been using an HP Mini311 netbook as sort of a fake extender. Since I don't use it for live TV, it works reasonably well. Its main drawbacks are the occasional stutter (I'm using it wirelessly) and the long time it takes to start up and rebuild the list of 100+ recorded shows each time I turn it on. Also, WMC tends to lose wireless connectivity at times and that has to be switched off and back on to re-enable it.

I had gotten used to skipping commercials with a mouse on the timeline using my netbook. I can't do that using the Echo and supplied remote. agh! I may have to look into automated commercial skipping.

On the plus side, the Echo (firmware 2012.1107.1232) seems to handle the 29/59 bug ok on my test video. But so does my netbook.

On the minus side, I had no idea what a downgrade 720p was compared to 1080i. "The Tonight Show" looked quite bad in 720p and either the Echo or my TV seemed to be having trouble playing it smoothly. The downgrade to stereo wasn't so hot either. You don't realize how rich 5.1 sound is until you lose it.

I received my beta unit today and the UI is extremely choppy. Much slower than the Xbox 360. If this does not improve, I'll be staying with the Xbox 360.
In addition, even on the latest firmware the Echo is reporting 720p 4:3 to my television. I have to set the TV to use FULL mode instead of normal mode for 16:9 source.
Lastly, my H.264 Handbrake Apple TV3 (1080p) encodes do not play back on the Echo in Media Browser. Avengers will stutter severely while some like Prometheus crash the Echo.

Ok, so here's a 1st for me. But the Echo's menu while still choppy, is definetly faster then the 360. The latest FW release fixed alot of the basic's, that being one of them, and is still being worked on.
The Echo still being 720p and PCM 2.0 is a disapointment at this stage, but ALOT of little issues of general viewing got fixed as well.

shortcut3d, if your not aware, DVD rips, h2.64 and AC-3 (MKV) will play. That is ~10mbps, but BD rips of the same ~20mbps will stutter and crash at times. So does the 360 though.

While progress is extremely slow, it is progress in the right direction.

Only my guess, but I think there will be 1080p and AC-3 next and then who knows, maybe passthrough, just rumor and MO.

...I had gotten used to skipping commercials with a mouse on the timeline using my netbook. I can't do that using the Echo and supplied remote. agh! I may have to look into automated commercial skipping. ...

Not sure about the supplied remote, as it is basically unsusable, but I am using an original MCE remote for testing and it timeshifts fine. 30 second skip and keypad entry.

Last time I read over there, there is a known issue with 1080i channels. It seems that 1080i channel videos are incorrectly converted to 30p or even worse. Hence the low framerate.

I just got mine today and I am definitely experiencing this bug. Some channels are unwatchable with them being very choppy. On a side not I am not able to get into the echo beta forums on the ceton website. I registered when it first came out

Last time I read over there, there is a known issue with 1080i channels. It seems that 1080i channel videos are incorrectly converted to 30p or even worse. Hence the low framerate.

I just got mine today and I am definitely experiencing this bug. Some channels are unwatchable with them being very choppy. On a side not I am not able to get into the echo beta forums on the ceton website. I registered when it first came out

shortcut3d, if your not aware, DVD rips, h2.64 and AC-3 (MKV) will play. That is ~10mbps, but BD rips of the same ~20mbps will stutter and crash at times. So does the 360 though.
While progress is extremely slow, it is progress in the right direction.
Only my guess, but I think there will be 1080p and AC-3 next and then who knows, maybe passthrough, just rumor and MO.

These 1080p / 720pH.264 encode playback fine on my two Xbox360s without issue.

I just got mine today and I am definitely experiencing this bug. Some channels are unwatchable with them being very choppy. On a side not I am not able to get into the echo beta forums on the ceton website. I registered when it first came out

We are not approving access until your Echo ships. I've got a few I need to approve right now - if you don't have access in 15 minutes, please PM me the email address you used to register and I will look into it.